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Ways to Express an Integer as Sum of Powers

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Topics: Dynamic Programming, Math
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Given two positive integers n and x.

Return the number of ways n can be expressed as the sum of the x-th power of unique positive integers, in other words, the number of sets of unique integers:

[n1, n2, ..., nk]

where:

n = n1^x + n2^x + ... + nk^x

Since the result can be very large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example:
If n = 160 and x = 3, one way to express n is:

n = 2^3 + 3^3 + 5^3

Example 1

Input:

n = 10, x = 2

Output:

Explanation:
We can express n as the following:

n = 3^2 + 1^2 = 10

It can be shown that it is the only way to express 10 as the sum of the 2nd power of unique integers.

Example 2

Input:

n = 4, x = 1

Output:

Explanation:
We can express n in the following ways:

n = 4^1 = 4
n = 3^1 + 1^1 = 4

Constraints:

1 <= n <= 300
1 <= x <= 5

— Written by Saurabh Patil • B.Tech CSE • Software Developer

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https://drawtocode.org/problems/ways-to-express-an-integer-as-sum-of-powers

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